Ivan Ilic - Ivan Ili? plays Haydn: Symphonies (transcribed by Carl David Stegmann)

Ivan Ili? came across these transcriptions, scarcely known at all, through the most unlikely and serendipitous sequence of events. Carl David Stegmann (1751 � 1826) was a tenor, keyboard player, conductor, and composer, who worked mostly in the field of opera. Employed by the Court Theatre in Mainz (where he sang in the first German-language production of Don Giovanni), he also gave a number of acclaimed performances in Frankfurt. Trained as an organist, he made transcriptions of string quintets by Mozart and Beethoven�s Trios, Op. 9 as well as keyboard transcriptions of twenty-five of Haydn�s symphonies. Ivan Ili? writes: �It is unclear to me whether these transcriptions were ever meant to be played as concert repertoire, in public. Nevertheless, the enthusiasm I have encountered wherever I have played them has persuaded me to make this recording, to allow more people to hear Stegmann�s idiomatic arrangements.�